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向 kanji
yonder, facing, beyond, confront, defy, tend toward, approach
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
コウ
Kun readings
むくむい-むきむける-むけむかうむかいむこうむこう-むこむかい
Words with 向
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —順向抑制proactive inhibition
- —逆向抑制retroactive inhibition
- —方向感覚sense of orientation; sense of direction
- —反対方向opposite direction
- —一向一揆Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist uprising (Muromachi and Warring States periods)
- —意向調査survey; poll
- —安定志向stability orientation
- —輸出志向export orientation; export mentality
- —無指向性omni-directional (microphone, etc.); nondirectional
- —長手方向longer direction; longitudinal direction
- —価格志向price consciousness
- —意向尊重respecting the intentions or wishes of someone
- —意向打診sounding out the intentions or wishes of someone
- —厚み方向perpendicular direction; lengthwise direction
- —偏向報道biased coverage; biased media account; bias in reporting
- —傾向文学ideological literature (esp. left-wing)
- —自力回向attempting to reach enlightenment only through merit one has accumulated by oneself
- —市場動向market trend
- —方向探知direction finding; direction detection
- —貯蓄性向propensity to save; savings-to-income ratio